Ortho-oxy-monoazo dyes.



ITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD KIRCHHOFF, 3' EN S DEDICHEN, AND WERNER LANGE, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO ACTIEN GESELLSCHAFT FUR ANILIN FABRIKATION, OF BERLIN,

Specification of Letters Patent. I Patented li far. 20, 191 '7,

GERMANY.

ORTHO-OXY-MONOAZO DYES.

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To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, R-ICHARD Kmoin' HOFF, JENs DnDIoHnN, and WERNER LANGE, citizens of the first-named Germany, the second-named Norway, and the third-named Germany, residing at 'Berlin-Lichterfelde- Ost, Germany; Berlin-Halensee, Germany, and Berlin-Friedenau, Germany, respectively, (our post-office addresses being Grabenstrasse 30, Berlin-Lichterfelde-Ost, Germany,- Seesenerstrasse 25, Berlin;Halensee, Germany, and Feurigstrasse 10, Berlin Friedenau, Germany, respectively,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ortho-Oxy-Monoazo Dyes, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are new azo dyes deriving from picramic acid and a 4- acidylaminophenol. They furnish on wool with aid of chromium mordants olive tints of an excellent fastness to washing, to milling, to potting and to light.

The dyes are in the shape of'pulverized' dry sodium salts dark powders, soluble in. hot water with an orange coloration, becoming more reddish by addition of soda lye. From the solution the dyes are precipitated in the form of yellowish flocks by an acid. Concentrated sulfuric acid dissolves the dyes to orange solutions. The dyes are destroyed by strong reducing agentsyielding 2.4.6-triaminophenol and a 4-acidylamino-2- aminophenol. U y

In order to illustrate how the dyes may be manufactured the following example is given the parts being by weight:

The diazo-compound made from 19.9 parts of picramic acid in the usual way is mixed at 10 C. with a solution of 15.1 parts of l-acetylaminophenol, alkaline by sodium carbonate. When the combinationis complete the mass is warmed at 0., drained and dried. The constitution of the dye in the free'state is expressed by the formula:

For the process indicated other 4-acidyl Application filed November 27, 1915. Serial No. 63,822;

aminophenols can be used such as the derivatives substituted in the nucleus, for instance by halogen or alkyl. Instead of the 55 acetylaminophenols other acidyl derivatives may serve as starting material, for example the corresponding formylor benzoyl-compounds.

' Having now described our invention and the manner in which it may be performed what we claim is 1. The herein-described monoazo dyes deriving from diazotized picramic acid and a l-acidylaminophenol, bein in the shape of pulverized dry sodium salts dark powders soluble in hot water with an orange color. becoming more reddish by addition of sodalye, the dye being precipitated as yellowish flocks by an acid; soluble in concentrated sulfuric acid with an orange color; being destroyed by strong reducing agents yielding 2.4.6-triaminophenol and a 4-acidylaminoQ-aminophenol. Q

2. The herein-described monoazo dye deriving from diazotized picramic acid and 4- acetylaminophenol, in the free state corresponding to the formula:

RICHARD KIRCHHOFF. JENS DEDIGHEN. WERNER LANGE.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER, CILLI FRANK. 

